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Google said Thursday it tapped enterprise-technology veteran Diane Greene to run its cloud-computing businesses, including Google for Work, Cloud Platform and Google Apps. Greene co-founded VMware Inc.
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, a pioneer of technology that lets companies handle big computing tasks across many computers in their data centers.

Google said it had acquired Bebop Technologies Inc., a startup founded by Greene that makes technology for developing and running corporate software applications. Bebop has 39 employees, and Google hopes to hire most under Greene. Google didn’t disclose a price for Bebop and a spokeswoman declined to comment.

Google created a new position for Greene, who will oversee previously separate, but related cloud-based businesses. Urs Hölzle, will remain head of the Google Cloud Platform business, and Amit Singh will stay on as president of Google for Work. Both will report to Greene.

Greene’s experience may help Google win more corporate customers. Google has one of the world’s largest and most powerful networks of data centers, and yet it has struggled to rent this capability out to other companies as successfully as Amazon.com Inc.
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